[TriLUG] XP/Vista on Ubuntu (was: Parallels)

Josh Vickery josh at vickeryj.com
Wed Oct 1 07:44:08 EDT 2008


I recently setup a copy of Windows XP to run on my Ubuntu laptop with
qemu and didn't have any problems with it.

The setup is slightly involved, but I found that
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo provided all
the information I needed.

Josh

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:
> At 10:48pm -0400 on Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Mark Freeze wrote:
>> I guess I'd like to open up this discussion to ask if anyone could share a
>> success story of running XP/Vista on Ubuntu? And with what package?
>> I saw Parallels working with XP on a friends Mac.  I was suitably impressed
>> so I was glad to see their version for Linux announced a while back. But, I
>> need it to work *reliably*



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